The Center for Writing Studies is an interdisciplinary academic unit that facilitates research and promotes graduate study in...
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The Center for Writing Studies is an interdisciplinary academic unit that facilitates research and promotes graduate study in the areas of written composition, language, literacy, and rhetoric. For graduate students pursuing M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in participating departments, the Center offers a program leading to a specialization in writing studies.

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Pioneering zero textbook cost courses and degree programs since 2012, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is the first...
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Pioneering zero textbook cost courses and degree programs since 2012, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is the first community college to fully share its OER degree pathways and courses for others to use and build on.NOVA’s Extended Learning Institute (ELI) and Lumen Learning have teamed up to make these “zELI” courses and degree pathways broadly available to the education community. These courses fulfill all requirements for NOVA Associate’s degrees in General Studies and Social Sciences. Published with open, Creative Commons licenses, anyone can freely use, revise, remix and repurpose the courses.

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Dekita.org highlights the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language)...
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Dekita.org highlights the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language) students, showcases the classroom Web-publishing projects in EFL /ESL and introduces links relevant to personal Web-publishing in language learning contexts. Dekita.org also serves as a means for learners, educators, and other interested people to locate student Web-publications and participate in the conversation.

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This is a series of 135 podcasts, each of which discusses using the English language.'Grammar Girl provides short, friendly...
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This is a series of 135 podcasts, each of which discusses using the English language.'Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer.'One user says, "I love listening to this podcast on my way to work... as a Spanish teacher, every day is a grammar day and you have given me great explanations to help my students better understand concepts that can be daunting. After having been a subscriber for only two weeks, your podcast has already put to rest one of the grammar battles that has been raging among teachers in the World Languages wing for quite awhile...and let's just say that you helped to prove that I was right yet again! Thanks, Grammar Girl. Keep up the good work!״

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The website contains an easy to use search engine that provides anagrams for any word, name, phrase, or sentence that you...
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The website contains an easy to use search engine that provides anagrams for any word, name, phrase, or sentence that you enter. The site has a word of the day section, interesting anagram examples, facts, and an anagram hall of fame. It also offers anagrams by email.

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These are customizable, modularized, TPACK*-based online “short courses” that are designed to help elementary and secondary...
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These are customizable, modularized, TPACK*-based online “short courses” that are designed to help elementary and secondary teachers learn to plan technologically enhanced, curriculum-based lessons, projects, and units. The content is divided into brief, sequential modules that help teachers to build their TPACK while learning to design technologically enriched instruction. Each module begins with an overview and learning goal for the segment, and is presented as video-based content that includes narrated slides, interviews with practicing teachers, imagery, and additional online resources. Each of the videos ranges from 2-13 minutes in length, and includes verbatim closed captioning. In addition to the video segments, the modules also offer editable student learning guides that scaffold each step of the learning, and regular prompts for in-class or online discussion with colleagues and mentors. The modules can be used as a supplement to face-to-face courses or as a completely online learning experience that might span two-three weeks. We have created different versions of the short course for elementary and secondary preservice teachers (with versions for experienced teachers forthcoming) so that we could customize the examples included to maximize relevance for the learners. We gratefully acknowledge an OER minigrant awarded by Swem Library at the College of William & Mary in 2015-2016 that supported this work. As we designed and developed these online short courses, we consciously erred on the side of the materials being perhaps too prescriptive and detailed for more experienced and/or advanced learners, since we suspected that it would be easier for other users to remove some of the content than to have to create additional supports.We acknowledge, however, that despite our efforts to create content and structure in the short courses that could be used in many different teacher education contexts, providing options to customize, amend, and append the modules and supporting materials offers the most flexibility for using these materials. Therefore, we offer the course materials in three forms, to provide teacher educators with options to best fit their students' needs.The courses can be used “as-is” through Web sites.Users can also download a learning management package file to import into a number of different learning management systems. Once imported, users can modify the content, prompts and materials to most effectively meet their needs.For those that would prefer more customization options, we also offer all the materials for download, including the video files, PowerPoint slides, Word document versions of the scripts and student materials. These materials can be modified, remixed, and used in any course format.We hope that our efforts will catalyze more widespread sharing and adaptation of TPACK-based learning materials among teacher educators.*TPACK is "technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge," or the knowledge that instructors need to be able to effectively incorporate use of educational technologies into students' learning. (See: http://tpack.org/)

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